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by hosh 2y ago
I had found a few I like on RR. The authors will sometimes do a shoutout for ones they liked, or promote. That gets me a fairly good variety.
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by hosh 2y ago
That is not how the artists I have talked to see it. Many are very angry about it. When I asked one about the generated cover, she came right back with, why didn’t the author reach out to work with them? And now, DeviantArt is collapsing, a
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by hosh 2y ago
You mean like Fieran? That is something author Blaise Corvin calls “exploration fantasy” and inspired him into attempting a new serial along that line. There is also Your Lie In April. Not a fantasy or reincarnation. There are few other exc
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by hosh 2y ago
Progressive fantasy is what RR is known for, and many series like that launch from there. There are others that are progressive fantasy adjacent. Progressive fantasy covers litrpg (and its many variants including 4x rpgs), so-called “cultiv
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by hosh 2y ago
I don't know if it is a mistake, but it's certainly the genie we let out of the bottle. If anything, we're seeing the acceleration of what happens when we have a world view that is founded upon exploitation, be that the land
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by hosh 2y ago
Royal Road is one of the platforms for indie authors to publish serialized web novels. Many people use that to jump into a full time writing career -- successful new serials get on a ladder, paetrons get set up, and when enough chapters are
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by hosh 2y ago
I have been circling that since I came across permaculture — or more precisely, permatech after deep diving permaculture. It’s easier to understand permaculture as a regenerative paradigm in a living systems world view. Only living systems
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by hosh 2y ago
I can respect that position. When I reflect on permaculture design, or Christopher Alexander's ideas, for example, the Western modernity did not have to turn out the way it did. I can't say that non-Western empire cultures were th
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by hosh 2y ago
My beef with this isn't about whether it concludes anything about innovation, but that it presents itself as a comprehensive and universal map of various technologies, ideas, and innovation when it is anything but. It is mainly concent
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by hosh 2y ago
This is a fairly Western-centric view. I don’t really see any entries on innovation outside the Western world.
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Denial, anger, and bargaining are coping mechanisms, so it shouldn’t be too surprising to see them appear when tightly-held beliefs and narratives are challenged by reality.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's original conception on the 5 stages of grief was not a linear process where one progress from one stage to the next, ending in acceptance. Rather, it was meant as a way to start a conversation and gain a bit of
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by hosh 2y ago
If the goal was to relieve the general public from being stuck inside, they did not have to go for opening everything up. There are a number of university presses listed in the lawsuit, but I doubt most people would want to slog through tex
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by hosh 2y ago
There was a good article posted previously here on HN about the lawsuit. There is something in the current framework that allows libraries to lend out digital copies — by having purchased a physical copy. They can lend out one digital copy
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by hosh 2y ago
Strictly speaking, Phoenix does have access to more water. Tuscon is on top of a mesa, and its biome is the upper Sonoran. It's not quite high desert. The aquifer in the mesa has long been drained and Tuscon has to pump water from the
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by hosh 2y ago
I live in Phoenix now. My wife and I are planning to move away from here in two years. We were only here because of circumstances outside of our control and now those circumstances are no longer applicable. Phoenix's main economic driv
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by hosh 2y ago
Drip irrigation isn't always good for trees to develop robust root system. Wastewater depends ... residential greywater can be used onsite if the residents are careful about the type of detergents they use. There are methods to treat b
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by hosh 2y ago
I live in Phoenix, and have seen the tree planting. There is a lot more that could be done that is not done. From my eyes, it looks more like, there are X number of trees that need to be planted and they are planted to fulfill those goals.
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by hosh 2y ago
One of the more enduring way of restoring the aquifer is to restore the riverlands the way it had been before we hunted out all the beavers. That is, to slow down water flow in the hydrological cycle so that it spreads out and meanders thro
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by hosh 2y ago
There are much easier ways to sustain an ecosystem in the desert without bringing in technology like that.
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by hosh 2y ago
I live in Phoenix now, and there are plenty of lawns.
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Phoenix's farmlands and orchards have been taken over real estate development. Real estate development and speculation has been the main driver of economic growth in Phoenix since the 60s, and accelerated with the widespread use of A&#
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by hosh 2y ago
There's a fungal infection here in Phoenix that eats eucalyptus. All of the eucalyptus on my street have been infected and died. It's not really about planting a single species, but rather, introducing new ecosystems, so no one sp
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by hosh 2y ago
Drip irrigation is not that great for trees that need to develop its root systems (to gather more water, and to survive monsoon winds in the Southwest). If you do drip irrigation for such trees, at the minimum, the drip would need to be exp
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by hosh 2y ago
Brad Landcaster lives in Tuscon and has successfully been able to implement the rainwater harvesting methods to provide substantial shade in his neighborhood. It's not just planting trees, but changing the conditions to support a fores
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by hosh 2y ago
In the case of Tuscon, where Brad Landcaster lives, it is the upper Sonoran desert. You go look at the wildlands, and the trees do fine. There are plenty of water to support the life that is there. There are lots of ways to work with that p
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by hosh 2y ago
Density and quality of construction lumber has noticeably dropped over the past century. I doubt that there are anywhere that logging is managed in a regenerative way, just “sustainable” to the degree in which we measure that.
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That’s technology working to bring people together rather than driving them apart
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That depends on the area and there are methods to mitigate that. One group out in New Jersey that has a community garden in heavily polluted land uses clean straw bales as the grow medium. Those only last for two or three years. But you can
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by hosh 2y ago
I can’t reply directly to that. You have to introduce species that bridges the gap and creates those links. To give an example with kadzu: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kud... Tldr: kadzu tur

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